Artist: ERIC CLAPTON
Album: 461 OCEAN BOULEVARD REMASTERED (CD)

Release date: 1974/ 1996
Media type: CD

461 Ocean Boulevard is a 1974 album by blues rock musician Eric Clapton. In creating his first album after quitting heroin and his second after the dissolution of Derek & the Dominos, Clapton was under pressure during the recording of 461 Ocean Boulevard, but the album received rave reviews upon its release.

On later pressings of the album and the Polygram CD, "Give Me Strength" was pulled because a songwriter claimed she was the composer and had not been credited (Clapton was originally listed as composer). It was replaced with the track "Better Make It Through Today", (dropped from the re-release) which was recorded in September 1974 and originally released on the "There's One in Every Crowd" album in April 1975. In his autobiography published in 2007, Clapton admitted realising several years after the release of the album that he had totally ripped off the famous Led Zeppelin anthem "Stairway to Heaven" with "Let It Grow" a track on side two. In his words, this was "cruel justice" for being such a severe critic of the band.

The title of the album was the address of a house on Golden Beach in Miami, Clapton was living in at the time. The house is also the one featured on the cover. In 2003, the album was ranked number 409 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

TRACKLIST:

"Motherless Children" (Traditional, arranged by Clapton, Carl Radle) - 4:53
"Give Me Strength" (Clapton) - 2:54
"Willie and the Hand Jive" (Johnny Otis) - 3:31
"Get Ready" (Clapton/Yvonne Elliman) - 3:47
"I Shot the Sheriff" (Bob Marley) - 4:25

"I Can't Hold Out" (Elmore James) - 4:14
"Please Be With Me" (Boyer) - 3:26
"Let It Grow" (Clapton) - 5:00
"Steady Rollin' Man" (Robert Johnson) - 3:14
"Mainline Florida" (George Terry) - 4:04

LINE-UP:

Eric Clapton - Dobro, guitar, vocals, arranger
Yvonne Elliman - vocals, background vocals
Albhy Galuten - organ, synthesizer, piano, clavichord, electric piano
Tom Bernfeld - vocals, background vocals
Dick Sims - keyboards
George Terry - guitar, background vocals
Carl Radle - bass, arranger
Jamie Oldaker - percussion & drums
Al Jackson, Jr. - drums
Jim Fox - drums